_______________________________________________________________________
APNIC IPv4 Address Pool Reaches Final /8
_______________________________________________________________________
Dear APNIC community
We are writing to inform you that as of Friday, 15 April 2011, the APNIC
pool reached the Final /8 IPv4 address block, bringing us to Stage Three
of IPv4 exhaustion in the Asia Pacific. For more information about Stage
Three, please refer to:
http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-exhaustion/stages
Last /8 address policy
----------------------
IPv4 requests will now be assessed under section 9.10 in "Policies
for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific region":
http://www.apnic.net/policy/add-manage-policy#9.10
APNIC's objective during Stage Three is to provide IPv4 address space
for new entrants to the market and for those deploying IPv6.
http://www.apnic.net/ipv4-stage3-faq
From now, all new and existing APNIC account holders will be entitled
to receive a maximum allocation of a /22 from the Final /8 address
space.
For more details on the eligibility criteria according to the Final /8
policy, please refer to:
http://www.apnic.net/criteria
Act NOW on IPv6
---------------
We encourage Asia Pacific Internet community members to deploy IPv6
within their organizations. You can refer to APNIC for information
regarding IPv6 deployment, statistics, training, and related regional
policies at:
http://www.apnic.net/ipv6
To apply for IPv6 addresses now, please visit:
http://www.apnic.net/kickstart
_______________________________________________________________________
APNIC Secretariat secretariat at apnic dot net
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) Tel: +61 7 3858 3100
PO Box 3646 South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia Fax: +61 7 3858 3199
6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD http://www.apnic.net
_______________________________________________________________________
* Sent by email to save paper. Print only if necessary.